People Getting Stabbed In Medieval Art Who Just Don’t Give a Damn

Medieval manuscripts were the imageboards of their day, full of murderous illustrations, however for some strange reason many people look as if they were bored with life anyway and their killer did them a service. Scroll down to see the funniest examples of medieval art where people are getting stabbed but just don’t give a damn.

116 Comments

Now days they do it with the internet , so don’t have to look at you while doing it

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AnonymousSeptember 12, 2019

A lot of these look like the swords/knives have been drawn in later by another artist.

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Hormel ChavezOctober 26, 2019

Bad artists and painters being influenced to show stoicism in death because it advances the word of God (all gods).

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The PhantomOctober 29, 2019

Hi, it’s me, “The Phantom.” Let’s get back to lame human rights and “Geneva Act” and UN. They’re all lousy. Lousy, I tell ya. We need to get back to the days where you could execute hundreds of Saracens for sitting on the Holy Land and be declared a saint. And then get stabbed while smiling. Them’s were the days. These days when you go around trying to mow down people in a church, it’s all “GENEVA ACT!”

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jkjkjNovember 1, 2019

It’s because of the low grade drawing skill

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EaracheNovember 5, 2019

They can’t be Photoshopped as Photoshop hadn’t been invented back then.

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PatrickNovember 11, 2019

Maybe the swords are metaphors.

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meNovember 12, 2019

where is the 1st one from

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AnonymousNovember 27, 2019

Priest with the knife in his head is St. Peter of Verona, the woman with the sword through her neck is St. Lucy, and the bishop with the four soldiers stabbing him in the head while he is kneeling at prayer is St. Thomas a Becket.

Not 100% sure on the rest.

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StorkukenDecember 17, 2019

The first one is Reinmar von Brennenberg. Been trying to find the source for months and just did. :)

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Kevin NeherJanuary 31, 2020

Perhaps it is a celebration of the person, and showing the manner in which they died. Spanning time. Like dude was a pleasant chap, but he got stabbed.

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Lbugg65March 3, 2020

OMFG This made my day! Thanks for all the wonderful comments. St. Abbey Stabby. Love that one! It is Art, for Art’s Sake!